New Hope
...Peace and contentment can feel,
An endless frustration to find,
When mixed emotions take over,
Swamping the thoughts in your mind.
In a constant state of limbo,
Stuck between fight or flig...
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Categories:
swamping, emotions, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Versailles
...In a phalanx of four: Peter, Lisa, Dave, and I, descended a waterfall of marble stairs - pilgrims to another time - as if we’d punched through a wormhole.
It’s a five-star bash at the palace of Ve...
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Categories:
swamping, boyfriend, fantasy, friendship, happy,
Form: Free verse
A Little Ants Sword
...
Sam is a novice gardener who stamps on all ants
He doesn't like them near or crawling on his plants
Their Queen was angry and wanted revenge
For the ones that had fallen she wanted to avenge.
...
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Categories:
swamping, insect,
Form: Rhyme
The White Jasmine Lord
...
I
first flowers open, seasons begin ! :
bloom before doom
as always
Rajasthani breeze sweet and scentful
fanning out to the sunset :
a caress ! across the ripeness of ap...
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Categories:
swamping, allegory, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Love's Last Heartbeat
...In the moorlands of desires,
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs,
In the dream of retracing their
scin...
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Categories:
swamping, angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Dena's Teenage Years
...When Dena and her girlfriend sneaked out of their houses at night, they both
would go and meet boys that they met during the daytime and they were their
boyfriends. One day Dena was writing her co...
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Categories:
swamping, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Narrative
Blues Boating Home
...Human history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy
...
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Categories:
swamping, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
It Is My Impression
...I would just like to say
that it is my impression
that longer hair
and other flamboyant affectations
are male dominant immersions
from sadly dull camouflage
into the birthright
and left
of hi...
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Categories:
swamping, caregiving, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Eighty Four Voices
...Last Moments of the Crew
of the Ocean Ranger?
Eighty-four voices cried out in the night
In the roar of the wind driven seas.
Help us, we're drowning, this rig's going down
And we'll miss V...
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Categories:
swamping, sea,
Form: Free verse
Lifeboat the Hippo Appears
...Part 3
They quickly learned... there was cause for concern
As the lifeboat was barely afloat.
When the Atheist turned and swiftly discerned,
"A large Hippo is swamping our boat."
Th...
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Categories:
swamping, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Torn
...Caught in the middle with nowhere to go
Between two strong-willed women
Manipulators according to their wiles
Related to one by blood
The other by dint of wedlock
Which one has the greater pull
...
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Categories:
swamping, anger, angst, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Clouds Hanging Over Me
...Clouds Hanging Over Me
dark clouds, ominous
feelings of dread swamping
me with foreboding
unable to get my breath
anxiety leading to yet another
panic attack to
disarm me
detach me from mys...
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Categories:
swamping, depression, emotions, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Transformation
...In our
faces.
Constantly,
in our
faces.
Glowing
screens.
Pumping,
pumping out
information
constant
Information.
Inundating,
swamping
the mind.
Washing over,
coursing through.
Minds...
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Categories:
swamping, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Up In Arms
...
Another wave of voter vexation
is swamping the shutdown nation
To the left,
the windpipes are hissing
To the right,
the windbags are dissing
And all of the kitchen cabinet apron...
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Categories:
swamping, cry, howl, people, political,
Form: Ballad
My Prayers Never Cease Be
...My soul at dawn awake
A magic light into my heart breaks
Solitary whispers shivering in awe
Towards the Infinite my whole upraised
Allah is the greatest.
A frisson of wonderment swamping to the...
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Categories:
swamping, allah, beauty, blessing, islamic,
Form: Free verse
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